Wildlife Pictures, Page 2
Expert wildlife photographers stake out their quarry like a hunter and wait, sometimes for days, for the perfect shot to appear. I am not one of them. But once in a while on a trout stream the wildlife photo opportunities come to me, and when I can I have my camera ready.
A beaver swims around the swampy corpse of a trout stream his species destroyed, with a little help from ours.
A whitetail fawn struggles through strong current to return to its mother. It lost its footing a couple times, and I thought for a moment it was going to wash down to me.
My dad held the canoe in place while I snapped a picture of this immature bald eagle perched in a pine over the river on an August evening. It probably caught more fish than we did.
This is a common sight on the large Catskill rivers in early May, a mother goose guarding her nest. They like to nest on midstream islands where anglers are prone to walk from one fishing spot to another, and they do not back down. This one was hissing at me and I didn't want to get any closer.
Date AddedJun 5, 2007
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
This muskrat swam around me for a while as I fished a caddisfly hatch.
In an unsuccessful search for a bear we spotted from a distance, we climbed high enough to be checked out by a curious mountain goat.
A large caribou walks through the bed of a glacial river in Denali National Park.
Canada goose returning to Fairbanks at Creamer's Field
Bison crossing the Yellowstone River
Date AddedJun 13, 2019
CameraCanon EOS 7D Mark II
In this "close up" of a grizzly bear laying down on an alpine hillside in Denali National Park, you can almost tell it's a bear.